In Madagascar, a Community Rises Above Adversity

The Anketa-bas primary school, flooded after Cyclone Haruna swept through the city of Toliara in February 2013, was cleaned and disinfected in a community rehabilitation project financed by the World Bank

Working without pay after the hurricane, the six community teachers continued to teach until the end of the school year

Despite these hardships, the success rate on tests at the end of the primary school cycle was 23 percentage points higher than the previous year’s